The Associated Press has moved a story with this headline: “Dog Feces Left at Congresswoman’s Office.” And what’s the lede of the story?:

Republican U.S. Rep. Marilyn Musgrave’s re-election campaign was already heated, and it just got smelly as well: Her staff accused a Democratic activist Thursday of leaving an envelope full of dog feces at Musgrave’s Greeley office.(emphasis added)

You would think that police are still out searching for the culprit in this incident, but you would be wrong. In the third paragraph a Democratic activist admits leaving the, er, token after the congresswoman’s enterprising staff traced her through a ZIP code on the envelope containing the feces. So why not just lede with that and write the headline appropriately?